I was browsing around in Google’s Webmaster Central yesterday, and I discovered that you can no longer view your ‘live’ PR distribution. You used to be able to find the live PR of your site in the ‘Diagnostics’ section under ‘Crawl Stats’, under the graphs of the crawl of your site.
This was often quite useful, as PR here is usually well ahead of the PR displayed in the Google toolbar, which is only updated every three months.
When asked about it, Google representatives said, “We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; …We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.”